The Afterglow

Chapter Two: The "oh so amazing" Boyfriend

I spent the entire night pondering over how I could ever so lightly phrase the fact that my family life had burnt into ashes. I fell asleep on the couch that night and dreamt about my mom before she got sick. How happy my parents had seemed together. I remembered looking at old pictures of them, before they got married, before they had me and couldn't help but wonder if I was the root cause of all their problems, If I was the reason Mom was sick and we were unhappy.

I woke up with a start, covering my ears from the blaring sound of Rory's alarm clock, which to my convenience was EXTRA loud. We drove to school in silence, Rory and I both tired from the disastrous day before. When we reached the school, Rory whispered words of encouragement then parted with me at the gate with a hug and a kiss. As I was walking to class, I spotted Tristan who came closer to me with a sly smile and said a little too loudly " morning Mary, It's a good day isn't it?" I paid no attention to his not so clever "virgin" Mary remark and kept walking towards class as he tried to think up other ways of torture.

As I walked into class it seemed like all eyes were on me. I even spotted some girls eyeing me and giving me dirty looks but I didn't care. As long as the report went well, I was happy. I got up to the front of the class, cleared my throat and began, " Hi , um, I'm Anya Gilmore, I'm 15 and I live with Lorelai and Rory Gilmore , who also goes to this school".

Mrs. Cuthbert looked up as If to ask if that was all I prepared and said " Lorelai or Rory"

I said, " I'm sorry?" not understanding her question.

" who goes to this school? Lorelai or Rory?"

" Oh  um Rory goes here, she's a sophomore but I guess you could say Lorelai goes here too because she shares the same name with her mom and Rory is just her nickname  but um.."

I stopped abruptly as I realized I had been babbling and went to take my seat.

    The rest of the day went well. No one paid any attention to me in any of my classes and That's the way I liked it.  I went home after school and Immediately crashed on the couch. It had been a long day but It wasn't as bad as the day before. It was an improvement. I changed out of my uniform and picked up the phone to call Josh. Josh was my boyfriend back in California. We started dating a bit before I moved to Stars Hollow and we agreed to do long distance. It was hard but we made it work. The phone reached straight to voicemail. I missed him Again.

Sorry this is so short...

What do u guys think? Will Anya and her boyfriend be able to survive long distance?